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September 20, 2013 09:23 pm -04

Snowden Documents Reveal British Spy Agency Hacked Belgian Telecom

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New documents leaked by NSA leaker Edward Snowden reveal that the British spy agency GCHQ — and not the NSA — was behind a cyberattack against Belgian telecommunications company Belgacom. The telecom counts the European Commission and the European Parliament among its customers.

The documents reveal "Operation Socialist," a malware campaign spanning over several years to infect the computers of Belgacom employees who had access to important parts of the company's infrastructure, as reported by the German magazine Der Spiegel, thanks to new top secret documents leaked from the GCHQ.

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